Week 4

hola!

how is everything going at home? my address is... i will give it to you before i forget.

hermana janessa milne

Centro de Capacitacion Missional

Melgarejo 159 La Molina

Peru

this email is going to be all over the place because i have even less time than when i was in provo.

so ya. hahaha where do i start? we just got back from the temple and it was beautiful... the bus ride was not as beautiful though.... it was so crazy and crowded. but luckily for me i was taller than everyone else on the bus. i was a head taller and my head touched the ceiling... there is no such thing as personal space here. hahaa.

today was a little warmer but it isnt as hot has it gets in utah. the weather is perfect everyday! it is so crazy. okay so ya. the mtc here is almost like the other mtc in provo. we workout and shower and then study study study. we are focusing a lot more on spanish here though... o ya because no one else speaks english. our teachers only know a little broken english, but we communicate well enough. i am pretty sure i only get about sixty percent of what is going on here... owelll. so my companion is latina. her name is hermana caicedo. she is from ecuador, and she talks really fast so i dont know anything else about her... woops. we are companions outside of class. but i am in the north american class, so i have american companions too. the same ones from provo. we are growing really close. it is hard to believe that we have known each other for less than a month.

most disappointing part.... they dont know how to play volleyball at all... no!!!!!!! o well. i knew it was too good to be true. so ya... they have a really nice turf soccer field here. needless to say, i am now slowly learning how to play soccer. why didnt i learn this skill before i came here. i have no skills and the latinos just laugh at us. one of my companions is going to teach me the basic soccer skills this week though. i am gonna be a pro when i get home. we have to play soccer five days a week here. but! we played north americans vs. latinos and we tied.... that has got to count for something.

it has been a blast talking with my companion. i think that i am picking up spanish so much better here. i am always surrounded by it. i am trying to teach lessons with hermana caicedo but i only have like five minutes worth of spanish vocabulary... and then she just takes over. ahahah. my latina room mates are now calling me rapunzel... i wonder why.... haha jk.

the food is okay here. it is different. and they have weird juices... the corn juice is the worst. the orange juice is the best. i honestly dont even know what the other juices are. o ya! and i have already accidently said my first swear word. i was trying to practice joseph smiths first vision and i mixed two words together... all of the latina hermanas froze and then started laughing. they said that the word i said was really bad.... sorryyyyy! i am not even sure exactly what i said. but mental note.... pronounce all the words in the first vision story..

gross moment. we cant chew on our fingernails or else we will get a parasite!!! wow. no way! that kind of scared me to death a little. at least i havent seen any huge bugs yet. and it was gross when i got a cold a couple days ago. it was the worst cold that i have had in quite a long time. thank you for dayquil, it is my salvation. the jet lag plus the cold was not fun. the president told me to clean out my nose. he said i have to breathe in water into me nose and then breath out. ugh is was like when i get water up my nose in the pool. but it helped a little.. unpleasant.

on the first day of the mtc. we had to introduce ourselves and bear our testimony in front of the entire zone in spanish. the latinos chuckled at our accents but it was really intense... i am pretty sure i dont even know exactly what i said... ugh ..... language will come.

the best part of the day..... Fruit time!!! at 845 every night we get to go to the cafeteria and eat fruit... it is the best thing ever! it is what i look forward to every single day. the fruit is really good, and sometimes we get ice cream. it is all that we talk about here.

i love you all!! o ya and i can only send letters if i have american stamps.... i dont have any. so if you send a letter... send stamps too. because i wont be able to mail any letters before then. i am out of time. i love you

Hermana Milne

p.s. funny random english phrases that the latino elders know

im the best in the world

are you talking to me??

pokemon, i choose you

sometimes they will just scream I LOVE!!! to the american elders, they always forget the you at the end. they are so funny to talk to.